[12] Pattens: wooden-soled shoes.
[13] Heir-apparent: the legal heir.
[14] Break cover: come out from his hiding-place.
[15] Pillion: a seat, for a woman, attached to the hinder part of a saddle.
[16] Fetish: an idol.
[17] Full-bottomed wig: this was a large wig worn by all men of fashion in the last century.
[18] Valeted: served; (from valet, a gentleman's private servant).
[19] Stickleback: a small fish.
[20] Pop-joying: nibbling by fish.
[21] Float: a cork or bit of wood attached to a fish-line.